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Charlies stolen bike makes it home…

Message from Charlie.

“So there I am standing on a cold and desolate Hilsea train station after a terrible day at work, when suddenly my phone starts going mental….Before I know it has been confirmed that it is in fact my bike! I walked home with the biggest grin on my face! Big thanks to Jane, Strong Island, Bored and the fine people of Southsea who look out for each other. Still can’t believe it…..”

Yesterday Tom from Bored dropped me a line saying Jane from The City Council popped in to the shop to let them know she has been handed over a fixed gear bike that was found dumped in a bush. She was only giving a couple of key features about the bike up. its a charge and has drop handle bars.

Well happy days it was claimed. And as we all thought and hoped it was Charlies Charge. Nice one. We posted about his bike being stolen back on 7th September and 5 months later it pops up. Crazy. The power of the interweb and the local jungle vine! It really works.

12 Comments to Charlies stolen bike makes it home…

  1. Charlie’s bike?

    Junior Bruce on March 4th, 2010
  2. think i’ll text him about it…

    gareth on March 4th, 2010
  3. I emailed him, but not got a number. Exactly what I thought. Fingers….

    Tristan on March 4th, 2010
  4. i’ve contacted him, he’s on his way home from work now but hopefully he’ll check it out when he gets back. would be quite a result if it is his bike!!

    gareth on March 4th, 2010
  5. Yeah that’s charlie’s bike for sure, I know those bars anywhere. That’s been gone a long time. Super good news

    Felix on March 4th, 2010
  6. Power of tinternet! Southsea community prevails again! Nice one charlie.

    Ian on March 4th, 2010
  7. it damn well was his bike too. good work all! power to the bronx….

    gareth on March 4th, 2010
  8. Happy fucking days. What a result.

    Tristan on March 5th, 2010
  9. Thats great news!

    Lou on March 5th, 2010
  10. Big thanks to all of Southsea!

    Am mad happy!

    Pudding Snack! on March 5th, 2010
  11. I’m super chuffed for my little bro. The day it went he was white and shaky, and you could see the tears in the corners of his eyes. That bike is his child. What a result. Now if someone sees my black original Italian 50’s bike with basket and ‘Romana’ on the side…pinched in London, but you never know.

    Naomi on March 5th, 2010
  12. well trippy

    Jay Raynor on March 5th, 2010

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

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